To me, middle class has much less to do with the actual amount of income one earns, and more to do with the degree to which one can manage the various aspects of life that involve money.

在我看来，中产阶级跟具体的收入金额数目关系不大，而是更多地取决于一个人处理生活中涉及金钱的方方面面的能力高低。

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Turns out parents get a bulk discount: people with only one child spend 25% more per child than families with two, and by the time you have three or more, you are spending 22% less on each one.

而且原来作父母还有“批发价”：只有一个孩子的家庭比有两个孩子的平均多花25%，到你有三个或更多的时候，你每个少花22%。

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Mobbs unleashed two kinds of predators on his players, a less adept one that was easy to escape, and a smarter one that was more likely to capture its victim.

在游戏中，莫伯斯放出了两种不同的捕食者，一种较为笨拙，容易逃脱，另一种则较为聪明，能轻易抓住玩家。

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Theres plenty of room for more." "And there'll be one less on this boat if you don't shut that hole in your face."

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So a lot of teaching and learning can be thought as less synchronic activities and more diachronic one.

所以很多教学可以被看成是,不限于一时的而有历时变化的。

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You can pay more into the cash value in one year and less in another year, as long as you keep paying a minimum amount.

你可以在某一年支付更多的现金,而在另一年支付少一些,只要投保人满足最低缴费要求就行

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And that is why we are helping companies like this one right here and plants like this one right here to make more cars and trucks that use less oil.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on American Energy

Well, that's one more option to Google's mapping service and one less company paying data dividends into the Mountain View system.

ENGADGET: Amazon Maps API enters beta as retailer weans itself off Google

Africa could produce and consume a lot more without America producing and consuming one jot less.

ECONOMIST: Poverty and inequality